Quality improvement plan for surgical departments

الملخص EN

The rising awareness of patients about medical care and the great competition among doctors and health organizations, besides limited resources, put a lot of pressure on hospitals to implement quality improvement programs.

Surgeons are the most affected people by these factors and they have not only to be aware or participate in those programs but to be leaders of quality im- provementprograms.

In this paper we tried collect the guidelines for a qual- ity improvement program for surgical departments.